“It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die and then dies. But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway, dies willingly, knowing he could stop it, then isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?”
Emma Thompson movie quotes
- Name
- Emma
- Last name
- Thompson
- Born
- April 15, 1959 in Paddington, Londra
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- English
- Profession
- actor, scriptwriter
- Zodiac sign
- Aries
Emma Thompson Movies/TV Series/Cartoons
Bridget Jones's Baby
Burnt
Saving Mr. Banks
Harry Potter and the...
I Am Legend
Stranger Than Fiction
Harry Potter and the...
Love Actually
Angels In America
Treasure Planet
Primary Colors
Judas Kiss
The Winter Guest
Sense and Sensibility
Carrington
Junior
In the Name of the Father
The Remains of the Day
Howards End
Peter's Friends
Dead Again
Impromptu
The Tall Guy
Emma Thompson movie quotes, phrases and lines
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“- Ralph: Hey, sun came out again.
- P.L. Travers: You say it as if you're surprised, as if the sun were particular about for whom it appears. It seems you think I am responsible for its miraculous dawning every day. For heaven's sake, it's California.”
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“- Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built and empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom.
- P.L. Travers: And don't you?
- Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I have suckered up to a stubborn, cranky dame like you for twenty years? No, I'd have saved...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Walt Disney: Please sit down.
- P.L. Travers: I shall not sit in the seat of a trickster! A fraudster! A sneak!
- Walt Disney: Mrs. Travers, what in the world has upset you so?
- P.L. Travers: Penguins have very much upset me! Animated, dancing penguins! Now, you have seduced me with the music, Mr. Disney, yes, you have. Those Sherman boys...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“Where is Mr. Disney? I should so much like to get this started and finished as briskly as is humanly possible.”
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“Doctor, I'd love to chat. Tea, cake, the whole shebang, but I have a ship to launch and... you've got your outfit to buff up.”
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“I know what he's going to do to her. She'll be cavorting, and twinkling, careening towards a happy ending like a kamikaze.”
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“Which doll shall we give Daisy's little friend Emily? The one that looks like a transvestite or the one that looks like a dominatrix?”
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- Marianne: At least she can escape Fanny, which is more than any of us is able.
- Elinor Dashwood: You do your best. You've not said a word to her for a week.
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“- Captain Amelia: Mr. Arrow, I've checked this miserable ship from stem to stern and as usual it's spot on. Can you get nothing wrong?
- Mr. Arrow: You flatter me, Captain.”
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“- Bridget Jones: What about the first scan? Would that show when conception took place?
- Dr. Rawlings: No. Ring this number and fix a date. And do bring along the father if you can work out which one he is.”
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“- Porter: Would you like me to unpack for you, ma'am?
- P.L. Travers: Young man, if it is your ambition to handle ladies' garments, may I suggest you take employment in a launderette?”
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“- Karen Eiffel: What's this?
- Penny Escher: It's literature on the nicotine patch.” -
“- P.L. Travers: You are the only American I have ever liked.
- Ralph: May I ask why?
- P.L. Travers: No.”
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“- Lytton Strachey: I'm so busy nowadays. I've been learning German, as well. I must say its the most disagreeable language.
- Dora Carrington: Then why learn it?
- Lytton Strachey: Oh, my dear... suppose they win?”
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“- Walt Disney: I think life disappoints you, Ms. Travers. I think it's done that a lot. And maybe Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't.
- P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
- Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a nighttime...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room, it will magically do it by itself! This entire script...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Walt Disney: We can't make the picture without the color red. The film is set in London, for Pete's sake!
- P.L. Travers: And?
- Walt Disney: Well, there's buses and mailboxes and guard's uniforms and things - Heck, the English flag!
- P.L. Travers: I understand your predicament, Mr. Disney. I do. It's just - I don't know what it is, I'm...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“True love lasts a lifetime.”
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“- Colonel Brandon: What can I do?
- Elinor Dashwood: Colonel, you have done so much already...
- Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.”
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“Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air.”
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